These folks are out there, and some are hiding in plain sight. These very divisive times have stirred the pot, no doubt.



A U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant arrested last week on weapons and drug charges is a white nationalist who apparently had a hit list of Democratic lawmakers and activists as well as prominent media personalities, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

In a motion for pretrial detention filed in federal court in Maryland, authorities said Lt. Christopher Paul Hasson, 49, was arrested Friday and charged with unlawful possession of a firearm and an opioid called Tramadol.

However, the filing described the charges as "the proverbial tip of the iceberg," and referred to Hasson as "a domestic terrorist" who meant to "murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country."

The filing was first noted by researchers from George Washington University's Program on Extremism.

Coast Guard spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Scott McBride said in a statement: "An active duty Coast Guard member stationed at Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, D.C., was arrested last week on illegal weapons and drug charges as a result of an ongoing investigation led by Coast Guard Investigation Services, in cooperation with the FBI and the Dept. of Justice. Because this is an open investigation, the Coast Guard has no further details at this time."

Prosecutors say Hasson regularly read a manifesto written by Anders Behring Breivik, a Norwegian far-right extremist who killed 77 people in a pair of 2011 terror attacks, and stockpiled weapons and ammunition. According to the documents, federal agents recovered 15 firearms and "conservatively" more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition from Hasson's "cramped basement apartment" in Silver Spring, Maryland.

According to the document, Hasson organized a spreadsheet of so-called "traitors" that he subdivided into three categories: A,B, and C. So-called "Category A" traitors included Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York, Tim Kaine of Virginia, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut (referred to as "Sen blumen jew" in the spreadsheet), Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts (referred to as "poca warren") Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Cory Booker of New Jersey and Kamala Harris of California.

Also listed in "Category A" were House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Rep. Alexandria Oscasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., MSNBC personalities Joe Scarborough, Chris Hayes, and Ari Melber as well as CNN host Don Lemon. Names in the "Category B" list included Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., CNN personalities Chris Cuomo and Van Jones, and the Democratic Socialists of America.

Prosecutors say Hasson Googled topics including "what if trump illegally impeached," "best place in dc to see congress people," and "civil war if trump impeached" roughly a month before his arrest.

The filing said Hasson had "espoused extremist views for years" and quoted a letter he drafted to "a known American neo-Nazi leader" in September 2017, nearly two months after the deadly violence at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. In the letter, Hasson described himself as "a long time White Nationalist, having been a skinhead 30 plus years ago before my time in the military." Hasson added that "I fully support the idea of a white homeland ... We need a white homeland as Europe seems lost. How long we can hold out there and prevent n-----ization of the Northwest until whites wake up on their own or are forcibly made to make a decision whether to roll over and die and to stand up remains to be seen."

Three months earlier, prosecutors say Hasson drafted an email to "friends" in which he said he was "dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on the earth. I think a plague would be most successful but how to I acquire the needed/ Spanish flu, botulism, anthrax not sure yet but will find something."

In the same email, Hasson mused: "Start with biological attacks followed by attack [sic] on food supply ... Two pronged [sic] attack seems it might before successful. Institute a bombing/sniper campaign."

Prosecutors said Hasson was an acquisitions officer for the National Security Cutter Acquisition Program who had been assigned to the Coast Guard's headquarters in Washington since June 2016. He previously served in the Marine Corps and the Army National Guard.

"An active duty Coast Guard member stationed at Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, D.C., was arrested last week on illegal weapons and drug charges as a result of an ongoing investigation led by Coast Guard Investigation Services, in cooperation with the FBI and the Dept. of Justice," Coast Guard spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Scott McBride said in a statement. "Because this is an open investigation, the Coast Guard has no further details at this time."

A detention hearing for Hasson is scheduled for 1 p.m. Thursday in federal court in Greenbelt, Maryland, just outside Washington.



https://www.foxnews.com/us/coa...awmakers-prosecutors

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Originally posted by Sigmanic:
Three months earlier, prosecutors say Hasson drafted an email to "friends" in which he said he was "dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on the earth. I think a plague would be most successful but how to I acquire the needed/ Spanish flu, botulism, anthrax not sure yet but will find something."

This is all you need to know about this moon shot. This is not a sane person. Not very bright, either.

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federal agents recovered 15 firearms and "conservatively" more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition from Hasson's "cramped basement apartment" in Silver Spring, Maryland

Lines like these always make me laugh. Most of us have “more than 1000 rounds” in just a cubic foot of space in the space that holds the rest of our ammo.

Irregardless, despite this guy being off his nut in a big way, the left will try to paint every gun owner with the same broad brush.

He’s all full up on the crazy ain’t he. Geez there are insane folks somewhere thinking ..... this dude has done walked off the pier.

Yeah, he's gonna find the Satan Bug for sale on Amazon, ordered up a batch, and kill everyone.

Perfectly sane

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Originally posted by gearhounds:

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federal agents recovered 15 firearms and "conservatively" more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition from Hasson's "cramped basement apartment" in Silver Spring, Maryland

Lines like these always make me laugh. Most of us have “more than 1000 rounds” in just a cubic foot of space in the space that holds the rest of our ammo.

I have just under that much in various calibers just in my Jeep.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Yeah, he's gonna find the Satan Bug for sale on Amazon, ordered up a batch, and kill everyone.

Perfectly sane

Off topic - Speaking of the Satan Bug, I had the complete set of Alistair MacLean paperbacks (through ~1976) as a teenager. Some of his got turned into pretty good movies - Ice Station Zebra, Guns of Navarone, Where Eagles Dare, Breakheart Pass.

I don’t thing 49-year old USCG LT Hasson will star in anything but his own mind and some rousing “hey, grab my soap, will ya?” scenarios for a long while.

I think that guys like this realize that their bullshit fantasies will never come true, and out of this frustrated impotence comes a desire to bitch to someone about it. I think that guys like this consciously invite government surveillance via provocative public statements because no one else wants to listen to their shit.

Clearly, this is irrational behavior, which goes hand in hand with being a nut job.

His little river boat captain has fled the wheel house.

His The Satan Bug meets Rainbow Six trip shows just how unimaginative and unrealistic he is.

Create a pandemic to wipe mankind out?

I need my alpenhorn...



E-bola.

If E-bola from west Africa or E-bola from the Congo didn't kill us all...

Have a nice stay in Colorado.

I'm surprised they didn't show his tinfoil hat collection

Well, I can’t say I’m a fan of any of the folks he listed as traitors and it certainly wouldn’t upset me if they stopped being political, but I cant imagine attacking any of them beyond supporting folks running against them. To each his own I guess.

Stupid left leaning news repeater on the radio this morning in Orlando said he was arrested for stockpiling weapons. I hate crap like that as “news”.

The guy was arrested for threats and being a nutjob who wanted his 15- min of fame. Maybe he’ll enjoy his new room at Leavenworth.

So... the dude was a skinhead before he enlisted. And carried on with this craziness after he began to serve. And no one noticed?

I've seen the situation reported a number of different ways, mainly focusing on how he is a "domestic terrorist who has a massive store of ammunition." Forum members here always laugh at what the uninformed view as "massive ammo storage". What I am trying to figure out is what he did wrong besides the illegal gun possession and drugs? He may have posted some of his views on social media, but did he threaten anyone, did he act on his plan? How is a person defined as "a domestic terrorist on a scale seldom seen" if he didn't act on his plan or threaten anyone yet. Obviously he is a nut job and I believe law enforcement need to keep their eyes on people like this but it seems to me that he is already being presumed guilty because of his thoughts and not his actions. I'm sure more will come out but these are my first thoughts about it all.

Even poor ol' tac, who lives mostly in yUK, has a LOT more than 1000 rounds of ammunition...

Poor ol' tac.

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What I am trying to figure out is what he did wrong besides the illegal gun possession and drugs? He may have posted some of his views on social media, but did he threaten anyone, did he act on his plan? How is a person defined as "a domestic terrorist on a scale seldom seen" if he didn't act on his plan or threaten anyone yet. Obviously he is a nut job and I believe law enforcement need to keep their eyes on people like this but it seems to me that he is already being presumed guilty because of his thoughts and not his actions

What he did wrong was not targeting Republicans

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Originally posted by tacfoley:
Even poor ol' tac, who lives mostly in yUK, has a LOT more than 1000 rounds of ammunition...

Poor ol' tac.

Ha! Ummm, sorry sir.

Hell, that's a minimum online order for me.

I looked at the partial list - they had they're mugshots on Fox News

I was wondering who the rest were...